Thread: Pet Peeves?

Originally Posted by alex1921

The woodpecker who decided that the wood trim above the window is fair game.

You can't believe how close to home your statement is!!

My dad was working nights during asparagus harvest for Green Giant and a woodpecker decided to start hammering at the roof right above his bedroom. He put up with it for a couple of days, then placed his 12 ga shotgun by the front door. The next time the hammering started BOOM! No more hammering.

No he didn't live in town but I really don't think that would have been a problem for him.

Woody Woodpeckers. Not funny in real life, that's for sure.

I had a home once that was stucco with cedar trim. Carpenter bees love to burrow in cedar. Woodpeckers would tear whole eaves apart looking for one carpenter bee. I made a joke once to a neighbor that a BB gun would eliminate the problem, and he reminded me that if you shoot a red headed woodpecker, you're looking at serious jail time for killing an endangered species.

Originally Posted by ZipZop

Woody Woodpeckers. Not funny in real life, that's for sure.

I had a home once that was stucco with cedar trim. Carpenter bees love to burrow in cedar. Woodpeckers would tear whole eaves apart looking for one carpenter bee. I made a joke once to a neighbor that a BB gun would eliminate the problem, and he reminded me that if you shoot a red headed woodpecker, you're looking at serious jail time for killing an endangered species.

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Originally Posted by ZipZop

Aloha!

Not a biggie, however, worth noting;

Montrealians who pretend they don't understand your dialect of French because you speak Parisian (Metropolitan) French. I'm going to Montreal in a few weeks and believe me, the battle will begin.

I lived in Paris for a few years and my French is not that bad. But they pretend they don't understand me since their dialect is Québécois, not Metropolitan. So, they answer me back in English. So I pretend I don't understand their English and answer them right back in French! Makes for an interesting battle of wits. Oh, the games we play.



The game is afoot.

-Zip

I have the same in France. I speak French with a strong Dutch accent. Many French don't seem to understand. I have the feeling it is the combination of strong accent and getting the melody of the language wrong. French is much more melodious if you like than Dutch and English.

Originally Posted by Kees

I have the same in France. I speak French with a strong Dutch accent. Many French don't seem to understand. I have the feeling it is the combination of strong accent and getting the melody of the language wrong. French is much more melodious if you like than Dutch and English.

Aloha!

I understand completely. When I first moved to Paris, they said my French had a strong "Canadian" accent. Really? At that time, I don't think I had ever been to Montreal, and my French was learned in New York (USA) State Schools and Colleges. But most of the Parisians I conversed with all thought I was from Montreal. That's what's so amusing by Montrealians saying they can't understand my French. The Metropolitan French say I speak with a Canadian accent, and the Montrealians say they don't understand me. ??? You just can't win.

It's not that big of a deal in most of Montreal because most of that City is English and French (French as a first language of course, because, after all it is Quebec), but in suburbs like Chambly where almost no one speaks English, you have to have a little French or you are lost. I have a friend that lives in Montreal and he's an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police). He has no problem telling me my French is horrible and would not cut mustard in Montreal. He laughs at me when I say things like "allons déjeuner" to him. He laughs and says "We don't use dejuener in Montreal, we just say "LUNCH". Oh well, that's not the way I learned French. I learned the old fashioned way... in a classroom. Live with it!
I can say that to him because he's a friend, even if he is a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman.

-Zip

Pet Peeve... why is it when I discreetly put on some porn in the middle of the night the volume level raises 50 decibels as soon as you hit play!!!

...and then there is the guy driving in the left lane doing 60mph with nobody else on the road who does not want to move over (because it is every New Yorker's god given right to travel in the left hand lane) so when you try to pass him on the right he wants to race and brings it up to 80mph!!!

Originally Posted by DupreesDiamond

Pet Peeve... why is it when I discreetly put on some porn in the middle of the night the volume level raises 50 decibels as soon as you hit play!!!

That is because they know that the Missus wants to know what you are watching in the middle of the night

I was always told that watching that kind of stuff will make you cross eyed and deaf among other things!

Maybe they think think that if your bed time is that late that you are older and therefore going deaf..

I think it is worse on a 2 lane road that when trying to pass someone that was going 40 in a 55 you have to get up to 65 or faster to pass.